Happy Hogmanay & New Year!

It’s amazing to think that during my lifetime, Christmas Day was a normal working one for many in Scotland and New Year was the big holiday. In many households, gifts were exchanged on New Year’s Day rather than Christmas. Growing up in Scotland in the 60′s and 70′s, Hogmanay and New Year was a kind [...]

The Weekend Waits – I Hope I Don’t….

The track which gave the title to Tom’s first album Closing Time 38 years ago. ‘Now it’s closing time, the music’s fading out’ Well I hope that I don’t fall in love with you ‘Cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display Your heart for me to see, [...]

And Yet More

Regular correspondent Robbo directs me to this site which shows the already designed 51 star USA flag. Puerto Rico is often called the 51st state but as this Independent article from 1999 shows, the 51st state could have been further afield!

More Readers’ Emails

A combination of being busy and not having too much inspiration explains the lack of postings in recent days. Thanks then to occasional correspondent Bill Stevenson who points me in the direction of this old TV interview with Gail Sheridan. Gail postulates that although Tommy is an atheist, there are many similarities between Christianity and [...]

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Aye. Back soon.

We Know What They Meant

Christmas……then what?

I don’t think we have anything planned for Neerday, so it may be a quiet one. Before then Harmonica Lewinsky are one of four bands appearing at Coopers in Helensburgh on Tuesday night for the Smiles for Life charity which has raised a lot of money for equipment at Yorkhill Kids’ Hospital. Then after Neerday [...]

Readers’ Emails

This comes from Toronto Tam. I am out of the loop with your reference to The Murdoch Mysteries but it does remind me of a funny story. As you may know the series is a Canadian production and was filmed here in Toronto. The English actor Tom Craig was living in the beach area of [...]

What’s Left?

After the trial of the decade there will be a realignment of politics in Scotland. Here we attempt to list some of the minor parties who will be vying for obscurity in the coming months and years. The Peoples’ Front of Cardonald (Formerly the United Peoples’ Front of Cardonald) The Cardonald Peoples’ Front (Formerly G. [...]

The Truth?

Aye it’s an elusive beast sometimes. More is emerging about the ‘trial of the decade’ via the Sunday press today. There certainly are some troubling aspects to the case. For instance the BBC having transcripts and tapes of police interviews with the Sheridans and the NoTW seemingly having access to court papers relating to the [...]